[Pen-l] What are these lists for?

["Julio Huato" <juliohuato@xxxxxxxxx>]

ravi wrote:

> I have always considered the avoidance of emoticons a strange sort of
> social ineptitude or ignorance (perhaps driven by a fear of loss of
> gravitas?). I am glad to see you have seen the light!

My reasoning was a bit different.

E-mail addresses required this new symbol @.  Modern math, logic, etc.
continuously introduce new symbols, because they need them to denote
new things.

Emotions, on the other hand, have been around for a while.  And it
seemed that traditional writing had managed well to communicate
emotions without new symbols.  Why use them then?

It's not that I have never used them, but I always felt it was sloppy.
 Or lazy.  Now, when you realize that today's online communications
are not as calm and reflective as older forms of written communication
used to be, it's obvious I underestimated the force of laziness.  Or,
put in a better light, the impulse to economize time.
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